Owen Gingerich has written 20 work(s)
Search for other authors with the same name
displaying 1 to 20 |
at end
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
1
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Paperback:
9780486607719 | Dover Pubns, October 17, 2012, cover price $7.95
2
Product Description: Exploring research domains involved with astronomy and cosmology, this interdisciplinary volume investigates and explains how the field has affected human life and perceptions of the universe. Chapters cover the historical background of the field, past and current research, the science behind astronomy, and open question raised by modern astronomical and cosmological research...read more
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9781439836002 | Taylor & Francis, November 28, 2011, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Exploring research domains involved with astronomy and cosmology, this interdisciplinary volume investigates and explains how the field has affected human life and perceptions of the universe.
3
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Paperback:
9780521135429 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 4, 2010, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Volume 4 of The General History of Astronomy, originally published in 1984, concerns the birth of modern astrophysics in the nineteenth century, the growth of astronomical institutions to around 1920, and the development of instrumentation.
4
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780674023703 | Belknap Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author argues that individuals can be both a creative scientist and a believer in divine design in a critical examination of how it is possible to contemplate a universe in which God plays an interactive role that is not excluded by science.
5
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780802714152 | Walker & Co, January 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Examines how the technical 16th-century treatise launched a revolution more profound than the Reformation, and how copies have evolved into million-dollar cultural icons.
Paperback:
9780099476443 | Gardners Books, July 7, 2005, cover price $14.35 | About this edition: Part biography of a book and a man, part bibliographic and bibliophilic quest, this book is a captivating piece of writing, a testament to the power both of books and the love of books.
9780143034766 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 31, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Examines how De revolutionibus, the technical sixteenth-century treatise by Nicolaus Copernicus, helped launch a revolution more profound than the Reformation and how the six hundred surviving copies have evolved into million-dollar cultural icons.
6
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Paperback:
9780976492528 | Houghton Library of the Harvard, May 31, 2005, cover price $15.00
7
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780195161731 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 16, 2005, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Presents the life and accomplishments of the man considered the 'father of the Scientific Revolution' due to his theory that the sun is the center of the solar system and the planets revolve around it.
8
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9789004114661 | Brill Academic Pub, February 1, 2002, cover price $225.00 | About this edition: This work lists and describes, on the basis of direct examination, all of the 560 located copies of the 1st and 2nd editions of Copernicus' "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" that survive in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, plus copies of known provenance destroyed, stolen or lost.
9
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780295980966 | Univ of Washington Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The night sky has always fascinated artists and scientists, awed by its beauty and perplexed by its meaning.
Paperback:
9780295980973 | Univ of Washington Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The night sky has always fascinated artists and scientists, awed by its beauty and perplexed by its meaning.
10
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780195215410 | Ill edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 6, 1999), cover price $273.00
Paperback:
9780195215427 | Ill edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1999), cover price $96.60
11
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9781891788147 | Cdr blg edition (Octavo, March 1, 1999), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A handful of great landmark books in the scientific renaissance forever changed how we look at our place in the universe.
12
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780883188637 | Copernicus Books, April 1, 1993, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In this collection Gingerich focuses on the transformation of astronomy from Ptolemy's geocentrisim to Kepler's remoulding of Copernican cosmology.
13
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780521326889 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: The Great Copernicus Chase is an anthology of 36 incidents drawn from the history of astronomy.
14
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780684154978 | Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, July 1, 1989, cover price $100.00
15
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Paperback:
9780871697875 | Amer Philosophical Society, December 1, 1988, cover price $20.00
16
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Paperback:
9780716718581 | W H Freeman & Co, June 1, 1987, cover price $16.95
17
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780521242561 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1984, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Volume 4 of The General History of Astronomy, originally published in 1984, concerns the birth of modern astrophysics in the nineteenth century, the growth of astronomical institutions to around 1920, and the development of instrumentation.
18
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780871695901 | Amer Philosophical Society, October 1, 1983, cover price $30.00
19
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780874741483 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, July 1, 1975, cover price $32.50
20
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780262070355 | Mit Pr, January 15, 1970, cover price $45.00
displaying 1 to 20 |
at end